At work, development doesn't have revision control. By this I mean that we are only allowed to check into the P4 depot when the change set is ready for regression testing. We can't check in intercolary changes! There are a host of problems with having no revision control during development that I don't need to go into here. Instead, I...
Is there a way to make a backup of package that will be change while yum update? For example when I do yum update lighttpd is there a way to backup and restore lighttpd if yum update will be unsuccessful or it will result in unsuspected errors or bugs? ...
I have been reading page after page after page about the benefits of using YUM package installer and how NOBODY should built installs from source files (which again makes no sense to me) yet the repositories and source builders always package files in Tarball format, leaving a TON of work (which usually ends up going wrong) to the indivi...
Hi, We have a web app we package into an RPM. We have a problem with the version field of the RPM. Let's say we have installed our rpm: foo-2.1.0.007 007 is our build number. Now when we try to install a newer rpm, foo-2.1.0.010, yum says "There's nothing to update". When I've remade the RPMs, but removed the leading zeroes, the pr...
I have a list of 350 rpms listed in a text file that are also installed in a cluster that is not online with the outside world. We have an internal yum repository. Is there a way to take the list, and download all the 350 installs for yum to bring back to the cluster? I hate thinking of downloading them one by one. Thanks ...
Hi - I am trying to install ffmpeg on an EC2 instance, by doing the following: (1) Editing: '/etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo' and inserting: '[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1' (2) Running 'yum update' I get the error 'http://ap...
I would like to work on wxWidgets on centos 5. It turns out that the needed packages such as libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 and other is not part of the default repository. I would like to find what I have to add to my yum.conf file in order to download those packages through yum and not using rpm files. ...
Hi: When I run 'yum grouplist' in Red Hat - I received the following under the 'Available Groups' list. How do I find out what packages are in a group (e.g 'Development Tools')? I would like to install specific packages and not a whole group (especially if I am not sure what is in the group). Thanks. yum grouplist Available Grou...
I use fedora 13 on my laptop, and I use 'yum' to install "recordmydesktop" just for fun.One day ,my boss ask me to install "recordmydesktop" into his computer(whose operator is Redhat Enterprise5.2) . Oh ,god ,the yum in his computer does not work! I can't "~#yum install recordmydesktop"!I know the reason is in the 'yum's source',but how...
I'm trying to get VSFTPD to work with a virtual user so that I can just login to any directory with a user I define. Unfortunately I get the following error when trying PAM with VSFTPD: PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_pwdfile.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] pam_pwdfile doesn't seem to be available in YUM ...
I have a software suite of ~150 custom RPMs, with fairly complex dependencies between them: the tree of dependencies for each package is usually about five levels deep there are several packages that (deliberately) conflict with one another most packages depend on one or more Red Hat packages as well as other custom packages My Conti...
I am new to installers and up until now have just been manually executing a line by line list of items to install. Clearly this is not a scaleable approach, especially when new servers need to be installed regularly, and not by the same person. Currently I need to install about 30 packages via Yum (from large ones like mySQL to smaller ...
Hi, i am using redhat 5.1 versions .i need the rpm that automatically download from internet similar to centos and ubuntu. see i have an old gcc. compiler i want to download the latest version compatible to my rhel 5.1 with this yum utility.please suggest sunil ...
Hello, I would like to now what happens if yum starts updating and during update user (force)shuts down computer ? What are the dangerous parts of update process if user shut down pc ? ...
Hello, I would like to know does yum keep cash of downloaded packages if update was not successful, for example during update computer was restarted, but some packages were downloaded. Will it redownload already downloaded packages or will continue downloading others ? Actually keepcache option in config file says that it keeps downlo...
I've noticed that when I update my programming tools (packages) on Fedora using PackageKit, I will occasionally be told that I need to logout or reboot. Yet when using Yum (preferred), no such advice is present (to the best of my awareness). My rule of thumb is that if I see a tool or plugin (Eclipse) has an update, I will restart the ...
I know there are other applications also, but considering yum/apt-get/aptitude/pacman are you core package managers for linux distributions. Today I saw on my fedora 13 box: (7/7): yum-3.2.28-4.fc13_3.2.28-5.fc13.noarch.drpm | 42 kB 00:00 And I started to wonder how does such a package update itself? What design is...
hi, I'm distributing custom applications for redhat. I want to set up my update server to have the client applications auto-updated. I need the update process to be secured. Can the connection to the update server secured and certified ? Is there an encrypted update method ? With server certificate check ? Thanks. ...